👥 LORE PREVIEW: FACTIONS 👥
“This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.”
- Veronica Roth, The Transfer
CONVERGENCE does not use pre-defined canon characters; rather, we create organizations and roles that are claimable and expandable by our players. See below for the current list of roles —
While we do not have defined government roles, characters are free to explore positions within Earth's parliament, military, or local judiciary or bureaucratic branches. The head of earth's government is not a playable character, and when applicable, admins will pass along instructions to earth governmental employees according to the latest actions taken by the global government. Government resources on earth are fairly stretched thin, trying to take care both of the latent crises that the irradiated environment brings, as well as manipulative behavior by corporations and illegal actions of the syndicates.
Syndicates are organized crime groups that exploit loopholes and weaknesses in Earth's present situation and which execute large-scale criminal schemes. There are currently three syndicates available for claiming by players, who can add the syndicate's unique details, plot, and members inside of our worldbuilding forums. One of the three bases its primary operations on the moon. Players can choose to operate at any position within a mob's structure, but be mindful that bosses may bear the responsibility for setting the direction of the syndicate during the course of the game with assistance from the admins. Syndicates are at odds with the government, many corporations, and, of course, each other.
Earth's largest corporations have near-monopolies over whole sectors of human experience. They could be a huge pharmaceutical company, an android and device manufacturer, or in charge of water distribution. Right now we are allowing up to five corporations available for claiming by players, who can add the corporation's unique details, plot, and members inside of our worldbuilding forums. Players can choose to operate at any level of the corporate hierarchy, but be mindful that CEOs bear the responsibility for setting the direction of the corporation during the course of the game, with assistance from the admins. Corporations are at odds with each other, and usually trying to influence government policy, and wary of syndicate interference.
The Greater Lords, or monarchs of Aubr, are believed to be avatars of the planet’s pantheon. The planet’s priesthood use ancestral memory data and resonant traits to identify monarchs who have started their cycle of incarnation anew, and restore them to their posts as Heads of State. Young monarchs play a mostly ritualistic role in their domain until they’re capable of leading it reliably, and may be largely dependent on the guidance of ARCHETYPE, an underlying utilitarian AI that aggregates Aubrian data and produces government recommendations to the State.Five of the seven Greater Lords are playable characters, available on a first-come, first-serve basis. The Lesser Lords of Aubr refer to key ranking officials associated with a Greater Lord’s domain, including priests and ministers. As such, multiple incumbents may be addressed by the same title. There are seven total monarchs, but only five are playable.
After centuries of migration and conquest, Icrillean island chains have largely formed into archipelago nation states. Five of these empires are available for claiming by members. A member who creates or claims a nation state is responsible for deciding how its government operates — because of the varied history, some of these are monarchial structures, some are democracies, some are dictatorships. Heads of state may receive instructions or assistance from the admins as the plot of the game progresses. Many of these archipelagos have a history of conflict with each other, even if the modern situation is currently peaceful.
Sioclite has three city-states available for player worldbuilding. Due to the unpredictable and hostile landscape on Sioclite, its denizens usually take shelter in large city states that have often been built out of the planet's strange minerals and crystals. A claimant of the city state is responsible for describing its governmental structure in the worldbuilding forum.
Because it is important that each city state be able to exhibit some degree of cooperation, Sioclite also has independent departments known as Stations, which are responsible for coordinating on various efforts (security, energy, research, etc). Right now, five stations are available for claiming and worldbuilding by members, though there are thirteen in total.
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